Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society

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Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society is written by Milda Ališauskiene and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317066960 (ISBN 10) and 9781317066965 (ISBN 13).

Since the end of state repression against religion, two major processes have taken place in the formerly socialist countries: historically dominant churches strive to reassert their position in society, while new religious groups and ideas from various parts of the world are proliferating. This generates pluralism of religious communities and individual religious attitudes. Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society presents the first collection of ethnographies of this new religious diversity for Lithuania, a country that has a long history of a dominant Catholic Church. The authors reveal how Catholicism has become increasingly diversified and other religions (Charismatic Protestantism, Baltic Paganism, Eastern religions and other alternative spiritualities) are claiming their space in the religious field.